To the Editor: It is a lifetime struggle to "Never attribute to malice that whichis adequately explained by stupidity". But in the context of excludingyears of data that don't fit their thesis and over-weighting smallnations that fit it, Reinhart's and Rogoff's coding error doesn't lookso innocent. It is consistent with a determined effort to shore upausterian politicians despite the data. Of course that correlation doesn't prove causality. But hey, I'mjust laying out the facts here.Barry Haskell Levine